The Kerala State Kudumbashree Mission has planned to open 24 hour gender help desk centres for providing short term gender shelter facility to the women and children . The main objective of this is to provide medical help, legal support and counselling etc to those women and children , who are the victims of the domestic violence. Initially ,the Kudumbashree will be starting women shelters in Thiruvananthapuram , Ernakulam and Malapppuram Districts and later would be extended to other places . The State Government has also allocated a sum of Rs 10 Lakh to make these centres functional.